Alessandro Dell'Acqua is an Italian fashion designer with
a worldwide reputation and a creator of high-fashion collections, as well as of
a couple of fashion brands producing clothing for men and women, among which
there is his modern brand No.21(Alessandro Dell'Acqua). He
collaborates with famous clients and Italian fashion houses.

Life and career before founding No.21

The Neapolitan School of Art, which the young genius
of the modern high fashion has successfully graduated from, gave him an
excellent education, however, immediately after the graduation Dell'Acqua entered
the Academy of Fine Arts. Thus, taken a degree, he became a real professional. During
the studying at the Academy, he was studying the characteristics of fabrics at
a sewing factory at the same time and was working at some Italian companies
such as Marzotto company, which motto was «Weave the Future!». During more than
one hundred and fifty years, this organization has been promoting young
designers, and Alessandro Dell'Acqua was one of the "discoveries" of this
company.

His first collection of ready-to-wear Alessandro had released
in 1996, long before he founded his modern brand No.21. Before he released that first collection, he had been
working for his new employer for many years - the giant company on Italian
fashion market, "Genny". This cooperation has become some kind of a ticket to a
new life: having such an important experience, he could easily scale the new
heights in design profession, and that was exactly what the Italian fashion
designer made. After the haute couture catwalk, Alessandro got down to the
menswear line, which was shown in Florence in 1998.

The early 2000s signified for Alessandro Dell'Acqua the
work on a line of fashionable footwear for women. Now in his arsenal there were
all the necessary collections and he became a real star of Italian fashion, which
already had a huge number of talented designers. At the same time, submitting
to the latest trends, Alessandro began to create perfumes. One after another,
there appeared new perfumes for both women and men. But in 2004, the designer
returned to footwear and created a memorable collection of men's shoes.

In the middle of 2000s, he became the best fashion
designer of women's clothes, as well as the best fashion designer, who created
the most modern women's clothes and accessories. In 2003, Alessandro Dell'Acqua
started cooperation with Redwall Group, and soon got into the group of
directors, which indicates the highest recognition of his talent.

"My thoughts are well organized, so I can easily
go from a very bourgeois Italian woman of Brioni to my client, who is much
younger and sexier" - admitted Alessandro Dell'Acqua in his interview with
the W mag magazine.

In 2009, the collection created by Alessandro was
demonstrated under a different label - Malo, which is engaged in luxury
clothing production. So, the designer came back to the point, where he had
started his career - to the high-fashion, to art in its brightest
manifestations. However, by June of the same year it became known that the men's
and women's collection 2010 would be designed without his participation already.
But, at the same time, the designer himself produced his own collection called
"No.21". He believed that clothing
and accessories should always emphasize the attractiveness, inconstancy and
sexuality of a woman, and manhood, independence and confidence of men.

Accessories in collections of the brand No.21 combine a sensual determination,
soft and elegant forms - there is a tangible influence of classic combined with
modern daring motifs.

Karen
walker, a bottle with its cap

Human is a social creature, means that they need a
partner to help and share each other's burden in life whether as a friend or
life partner or a little bit of both. Karen
walker( click here ) is really lucky to have someone in her life not only as her best
friend but also as her life mate. She has been happily married for more than
two decades with her husband, Mikhail Gherman. Just like any ordinary marriage
life, her marriage life has its own up and down. There's a time the couple
argues but there's also a time the couple relaxes and enjoys their tea
together.

Mikhail Gherman or mostly known as Mikhail isn't only
Karen walker's other half but also
her co-partner and owner of her fashion business. She describes Mikhail as a
creative genius while she is intellectually a genius. They felt this chemistry
from the moment they met each other about 20 years ago when she was still 17
and he was 21. Up until now, they fill each other's weaknesses and help one
another, but there's also a time when they both fight like cat and dog. If that
happened, mostly, Designer Karen Walkerwill
sit impassively and let Mikhail do the talking. It can be interpreted as
Mikhail become controlling and Karen being, a bit aloof, like her chowchow dog,
Turkey.

Unlike her blunt, cautious and very serious attitude,
her husband is sensitive and obsessive. Mikhail has the delicate and artistic
temperament (AKA a little bit eccentric). He means art like he means business
and always knows how to come out with creative ideas. Mostly he gets his ideas
about art from his surroundings. For example, there was a time when he went to
a funeral and saw really cool guys with their Dolce and Gabbana sunglasses with
their tears falling down. That image stayed for a long time in his brain and he
re-created that image into creative ideas for the autumn campaign. Just like Karen walker often says, Mikhail is
truly a creative genius man.

Even though Mikhail is a creative genius person, he is
also a forgetful one. There are many times he loses his keys and locked out of
his workroom which he always blames Karen for the lost of his keys. Those are
just one of the things they mostly fight about, but they never fight about trivia
things like putting out the rubbish or who left the socks on the floor. Karen walker tells the reason why. She
says that it's always Mikhail's socks (they both have different kind of socks) that
scatter on the floor. It's so obvious that they don't have to have an argument
about whose socks are that.

No marriage couple is perfect and that also applies to
Karen walker's marriage life. Both
Mikhail and Karen might have their own weaknesses, but by focusing on the
positive things that each other has, their marriage stays a very long time up
until now. Now, the couple had been blessed by the presence of a daughter and
that makes their happiness even fuller. If it is illustrated, Mikhail and Karen
are just like a bottle with its cap. Perfectly match for each other and need
one another.